Head to the Powerhouse Museum for heaps of School Holiday and 'all year round' fun including Thinkspace, The Wiggles Exhibition, and The Harry Potter Exhibition!
Where:
Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris St, Ultimo (behind Chinatown and Darling Harbour)
Opening Hours:
Open from 10:00am - 5.00pm (Extended opening times for some public and/or school holidays.)
More info:
Click here for the Powerhouse Museum website
Thinkspace School Holiday Workshops
More info: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/thinkspace/courses/school_holiday_workshops.php
To purchase discounted additional day tickets for Thinkspace Jam sessions, please contact Thinkspace on (02) 9217 0392 or the Museum's general enquiry line (02) 9217 0222.
Scratch Discovery Session - 7-15 April 11am-12pm, 1pm-2pm, Ages 6 years and over
Learn to create animations, games and puzzles and find out about the world-wide Scratch community online. Scratch is multimedia art and science using free, state of the art software Scratch, designed by MIT Media Labs.
$10 child, $8 member child
Scratch and LEGO Jam Session, 7-15 April, 10am – 4pm. Ages 6 years and over
Build highly engaging, video games, animated stories and interactive art with Scratch and Lego. Use motors, motion sensors, light sensors and your imagination. Each day a different skill area is introduced, for example music, image re-mixing, stop frame animating, and rule based games. The possibilities are limitless!
$100 child, $80 member child
Book two or more days and save! Additional days $90 child, $75 member child
Minecraft Discovery Session, 17–22 April, 11am – 12pm, 1pm – 2pm. Ages 6 years and over
Discover today’s fastest growing virtual world. Minecraft is a creativity and building orientated ‘sand-box game’. Players build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world.
$10 child, $8 member child
Minecraft Jam Session, 17–22 April, 10am – 4pm, Ages 6 years and over
Come help us build the Powerhouse Museum of tomorrow in our unique Powerhouse Museum Minecraft world (mod), featuring an exclusive collection of textures, objects,
rules and game play. The best constructions and designs are published to the Powerhouse Museum’s online Minecraft gallery.
$100 child, $80 member child (Book two or more days and save! Additional days $90 child, $75 member child )
The Harry Potter Exhibition - extended until 9 April
Click here for further details and to book tickets
The first and only Australian stop of Harry Potter™:The Exhibition, offering fans a first-hand look inside the famous wizard’s magical world and the opportunity to experience the amazing craftsmanship that went into creating the iconic props and costumes that have appeared throughout the Harry Potter film series.
HARRY POTTER EXHIBITION OPEN HOURS
Monday
9.30am - 5pm (last entry 3.30pm)
Tuesday
9.30am - 5pm (last entry 3.30pm)
Wednesday
9.30am - 5pm (last entry 3.30pm)
Thursday
9.30am - 5pm (last entry 3.30pm)
Friday
9.30am - 7.00pm (last entry 5.30pm)
Saturday
9.30am - 7.00pm (last entry 5.30pm)
Sunday
9.30am - 5pm (last entry 3.30pm)
Note: While the Museum welcomes visitors of all ages some exhibitions, such as this one, cannot accommodate strollers and so they ask that carers make use of the stroller parking provided at the cloaking desk on level 3 (main entrance).
The Wiggles Exhibition - on until 24 September 2012
While children dive into free-form play or are engrossed with high-tech interactive exhibits, grown-ups will uncover the amazing rise of The Wiggles and what’s kept them strong for so long.
All your family’s favourites are here – there’s a room dedicated to each of The Wiggles and the things they love. Plus there’s Wags The Dog, Henry the Octopus, Captain Feathersword and Dorothy the Dinosaur.